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Epidemiology of childhood malnutrition in India and strategies for its control
By Dr Rakesh Kumar
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Framework
1. Introduction
2. What is malnutrition
3. Magnitude of malnutrition
4. Determinants of malnutrition
5. Prevention and control
6. Nutritional programmes in India
7. References
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Introduction
• Malnutrition makes children more vulnerable to disease and premature death
• India has the highest proportion of under-nourished children in the world
• Effective interventions are available to reduce stunting, micronutrient deficiencies, and child deaths
• Millennium development goal (MDGs)
Target 2: to reduce the proportion of underweight
children by half by the year 2015
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What is Malnutrition
• A range of conditions occurring when intake of one or more nutrients doesn’t meet the requirements
• Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) is a malnutrition resulting from the deficiency of protein and/or energy in diet
• Etiological Theory:
‘Protein gap’ ‘Food gap’
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Kwashiorkor: . Apathy, swelling (oedema) of the extremities, torso and face, cracked, peeling, infection-prone skin and unnaturally blond, sparse hair are its visible characteristics.
Marasmus: fat and muscle tissue are depleted, and the skin hangs in loose folds with the bones clearly visible beneath. Hyper-alert and ravenously hungry
Two polar forms of PEM
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Interpretation of Nutritional Indices
Indicator AcuteMalnutrition
ChronicMalnutrition
Wt-for-age(Underweight)
Ht-for-Age (Stunting)
Normal
Wt-for-Ht(Wasting)
Normal
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Grades of malnutrition
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Magnitude of Malnutrition
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Magnitude of Malnutrition
• Prevalence of malnutrition in World:
Underweight:150 million (26.7%)
Stunting: 182 million (32.5%) are stunted
• More than 70% of PEM children live in Asia, 26% in Africa and 4% in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Prevalence of malnutrition in India (NFHS-3) :
Moderate(Z-score < 2)
Severe(Z-score<3)
Underweight 43% 16%
Stunting 48% 24%
Wasting 20% 6.4%
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Prevalence of stunting in children under 5 years
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Countries with stunting prevalence ≥20% in children under the age of 5 years that together account for >80% of the world’s undernourished children.
The 20 countries with the highest burden of undernutrition
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Prevalence of stunting among children under 5 years old in India by state
Inter state variation
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Trends in Nutritional status in children
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Determinants of Malnutrition
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Conceptual Framework for determinants of Malnutrition
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Infection and Malnutrition
Inadequate dietary intake
Disease: Incidence, duration, severity
Weight lossGrowth faltering
Lowered immunityMucosal damage
Appetite lossNutrient loss
MalabsorbtionAltered metabolism
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Household- level Food security
National/ regional level food security
Age, Gender, Education, Income, Autonomy
Decision Maker
Household- level Food security
Agriculture production, Income, Effective trade, transport infrastructure
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Effect of age on Malnutrition
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Intergenerational cycle of malnutrition
Nutritional status at puberty
Girls nutritional status
Neonatal and infant nutritional status
Nutritional status of lactating women
Nutritional status of pregnant woman
Nutritional status of woman of child-
bearing age
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The South Asian Enigma:
Why is undernutrition in South Asia so much higher than in Sub Saharan Africa?
• Explained by three key differences between South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa
1. Low birth weight - single largest predictor of undernutrition Prevalence of LBW in India is over 30% Indian babies (16% in Sub-Saharan Africa)
2. Women in South Asia tend to have lower status and less decision-making power than women in Sub-Saharan Africa.
3. Hygiene and sanitation standards in South Asia are well below those in Africa
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Prevention & Control
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Interventions that affect child undernutrition
Maternal & Birth Outcome Infants & children
Maternal supplements of balanced energy and Protein
Promotion of breastfeeding (individual and group counselling)
Iron -folate supplementation Behaviour change communication for improved complementary feeding
Maternal calcium supplementation Iron fortification and supplementation programmes
Maternal iodine through iodisation of salt Vitamin A fortification or supplementation
Maternal deworming in pregnancy Zinc supplementationZinc in management of diarrhoea
Interventions to reduce tobacco consumption or indoor air pollution
Periodic Deworming
Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria
Conditional cash transfer programmes (with nutritional education)
Insecticide-treated bednets Handwashing or hygiene interventions
Insecticide-treated bednets
Treatment of severe acute malnutrition
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Interventions
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Promoting appropriate feeding for infants and young children
• Promoting exclusively breastfeeding for the first six months
• Start complementary feeding (Timely , adequate, safe, properly fed) after six month while continuing breastfeeding up to two years of age
• Providing sound and culture-specific nutrition counselling to mothers and recommending the widest possible use of indigenous foodstuffs
• Helping women in paid employment to continue breastfeeding by providing with minimum enabling conditions e.g, paid maternity leave, part-time work arrangements, on-site crèches, facilities for expressing and storing breast milk, and breastfeeding breaks
• Food fortification and universal or targeted nutrient supplementation
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GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR COMPLEMENTARYF E E D I N G O F T H E B R E A S T F E D C H I L D
1. Practice exclusive breastfeeding from birth to 6 months of age, and introduce complementary foods at 6 months of age while continuing to breastfeed.
2. Continue frequent, on-demand breastfeeding until 2 years of age or beyond.
3. Practice responsive feeding, applying the principles of psychosocial care. Specifically:
a) feed infants directly and assist older children when they feed themselves, being sensitive to their hunger and satiety cues;
b) feed slowly and patiently, and encourage children to eat, but do not force them;
c) if children refuse many foods, experiment with different food combinations, tastes, textures and methods of encouragement;
d) minimize distractions during meals if the child loses interest easily;
e) feeding times are periods of learning and love - talk to children during feeding, with eye to eye contact.
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GUIDING PRINCIPLES ...
4. Practice good hygiene and proper food handling by – washing caregivers’ and children’s hands before food preparation and
eating, – storing foods safely and serving foods immediately after preparation,– using clean utensils to prepare and serve food, – using clean cups and bowls when feeding children, and – avoiding the use of feeding bottles, which are difficult to keep clean.
5. Start at 6 months of age with small amounts of food and increase the quantity as the child gets older, while maintaining frequent breastfeeding.
6. Gradually increase food consistency and variety as the infant gets older, adapting to the infant’s requirements and abilities.
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GUIDING PRINCIPLES …
7. Increase the number of times that the child is fed complementary foods as he/she gets older. – If energy density or amount of food per meal is low, or the child is no
longer breastfed, more frequent meals may be required.
8. Feed a variety of foods to ensure that nutrient needs are met. e.g, Meat, poultry, fish or eggs should be eaten daily, or as often as possible. – Vitamin A-rich fruits and vegetables should be eaten daily. – Provide diets with adequate fat content. – Avoid giving drinks with low nutrient value, such as tea, coffee, soda.
Limit the amount of juice offered
9. Use fortified complementary foods or vitamin-mineral supplements for the infant, as needed.
10. Increase fluid intake during illness, including more frequent breastfeeding, and encourage the child to eat soft, varied, appetizing, favorite foods – After illness, give food more often than usual and encourage the child to
eat more
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Growth Monitoring & Promotion
Importance of Growth Monitoring :
a) To provide an opportunity for giving health education and advice for the prevention of malnutrition.
b) For early detection of abnormal growth and development.
c) To facilitate the early treatment or correction of any conditions that may be causing abnormal growth and development.
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Child-care during Illnesses
• Home treatment: Give sick children appropriate home treatment for infections.
• Care seeking: Recognize when sick children need treatment outside the home, and seek care from appropriate providers.
• Appropriate practices: Follow the health worker’s advice about treatment, follow-up and referral.
• Feeding and fluids for sick children: Continue to feed and offer more fluids, including breast milk, to children when they are sick.
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Management of Severe Malnutrition
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Timeframe for management of severe malnutrition
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Conceptual model of how interventions can affect early child development
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Nutritional Programmes in India• Ministry of Social Welfare– ICDS programme– Balwadi nutrition programme– Special Nutrition programme
• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare– Prophylaxis against nutritional anaemia– Vitamin A prophylaxis programme– Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control programme
• Ministry of Education– Mid Day Meal programme
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Interventions under ICDS
Services Target Group Services Provider
Supplementary Nutrition& Growth monitoring
Children below 6 years; pregnant and lactating mothers
Anganwadi Workers (AWW) & AnganwadiHelper (AWH)
Immunization Children below 6 years; pregnant mothers
ANM/MO
Health Checkups Children below 6 years; pregnant and lactating mothers
ANM/MO/AWW
Treatment & Referral Children below 6 years; pregnant and lactating mothers
AWW/ANM/MO
Pre-School Education Children 3-6 years AWW
Nutrition & Health Education
Women (15- 45 years) AWW/ANM/MO
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Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program
• Mismatch between the program’s intentions and its actual implementation
• Key mismatches are:
– Dominant focus on food supplementation– Service delivery is not sufficiently focused on the youngest
children (under three) – ICDS is only partially succeeding in preferentially targeting
girls and lower castes (who are at higher risk of undernutrition)
– The poorest states and those with the highest levels of undernutrition still have the lowest levels of program funding and coverage by ICDS activities
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Redirecting ICDS
1. Resolve the current ambiguity about the priority of different program objectives and interventions
2. Emphasis on disease control and prevention activities, education to improve domestic child-care and feeding practices, and micronutrient supplementation
3. Better targeting towards the most vulnerable age groups (children under three and pregnant women)
4. Funds and new projects need to be redirected towards the states and districts with the highest prevalence of malnutrition
5. Supplementary feeding activities need to be better targeted towards those who need it most
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Redirecting ICDS…
6. Growth-monitoring activities need to be performed with greater regularity, with an emphasis on using this process to help parents understand how to improve their children’s health and nutrition;
7. Involving communities in the implementation and monitoring of ICDS
8. Strengthening of monitoring and evaluation activities through collection of timely, relevant, accessible, high-quality information and this information needs to be used to improve ⎯program functioning by shifting the focus from inputs to results, informing decisions and creating accountability for performance
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Will India reach MDG goal?
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Different Intervention scenario needed for reaching MDG goal
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